Display device



H. D. LYMAN.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

APPLICATION HLED NOV. 26. 1915.

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HENRY I), LYMaN, or MINnEAroLIs, INNESOTA. I

DISPLAY DEVICE.

p fi e h r e sr t m. Patented Aug. 19; 1919.-

Application filed November 26, Serial No. 63,562.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HENRY D. LYMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to display devices, and more particularly to such as are'especially suitable for advertising shoes, although as will be readily appreciated upon an understanding of the invention, the device is equally applicable for the advertising of certain other articles of personal wear.

The device of the present invention comprises, briefly, a folded dilatable base of stiffened material, as card-board, presenting the appearance of the extremity or lower portion of a garment, and adapted to be placed over the top of a displayed article of personal wear such as a shoeor glove. If used in connection with a shoe, the device will assume the shape of the lower portion of a trousers-leg or a skirt; while if used in the display of a glove, the shape given the base will be that of the extremity of the sleeve.

One embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 isa side view of a shoe having the device supported thereon; and

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device in its dilated position.

As illustrated, the invention comprises a somewhat stiffened dilatable base 1, preferably of cardboard, having the shape of the lower portion of a trousers-leg. This base may be conveniently formed by folding the sheet upon itself along a line 2, 3, constituting one edge of the imitation trousers-leg, and securing the free edges of the blank together as by pasting along a flap 4. The lower edges of the base may be folded upward and pasted, if necessary, to provide a cuff 5, the adjacent endsof the two strips forming the cuff being secured together, if desired.

The surface of the base 1, including the cuff 5, is either covered with cloth in imitation of a trousers-leg, or, preferably. treated toefi'ect an imitation of cloth. This latter may be accomplished by any of the well-known methods. of relief and colorplate printing, and it is not thought necessary to describe such methods here. Certain portions of the surface of the base 1 would, in this case, be also embossed, as indicated at 6, 7 to simulate seams and folds. It will be obvious that instead of turning back thelower portion of the base 1 to form a cufi 5, where such is desired, and covering it with cloth or treating its outer surface to resemble cloth, such turned-back portion may be dispensed with, and, instead, the lower portion of the base may be at once embossed in imitation of a cuff.

To maintain the device in its dilated position, a foldable or removable spacingstrap 8 about three inches long may be attached across the inside of the base, between the side-walls thereof.

Also, for purposes of advertisement, an uncovered or untreated portion 9 may be left on one or both sides of the base 1.

I In use the base 1 is dilated and the strap 8 adjusted to maintain the sides in their spaced relation, and in this condition is placed over the top of a boot or shoe. Owing to the rigidity of the structure, no other support is necessary. Placed in a show-case or a show-window, such a device serves to display the shoe in an effective manner.

While the invention has been described and illustrated as representing the lower portion of a trousers-leg, it is to be understood that the device may take the form and appearance of the lower portion of a skirt.

Or it may be made to resemble the extremity of a coat-sleeve, and placed over a gloveor gloved form.

I claim 1. A display device comprising a dilatable, stiffened base having the shape and appearance of the lower portion of a trousers-leg, and adapted to be placed over the top of a shoe.

2. A display device comprising a dilat-' able, stiffened base conforming in shape to the extremity of a garment, and adapted to be placed over the top of an article of personal wear having normally a wearing relation to said garment, the surface of said base being treated to imitate cloth and embossed to simulate seams and folds.

3QA display device comprising a dilat- In testimony whereof I affix my signature able, vstlfi'ened base conforming in shape to in presence of two witnesses. the lower portion of a trousersdeg, and

adapted to be placed over the top of a shoe, HENRY LYMAN' 5 the surface of said base being, treated to Witnesses: v

imitate cloth and embossedto simulate seams Y A. L. ROTH,

and folds. s I ALF. J. BRENEMAN.

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Washington, D. G. 

